I've been asked this question a lot... and I've asked this question a lot. I'm actually really curious what everyone else's cosplay pet peeves are. I decided to toss out a short list of things that get under my skin in regards to cosplay below. 1. Beautiful cosplay, no makeup. - It seriously irks me when I see someone with an awesome cosplay and then they turn around and they've done NOTHING with their face. It's my number one pet peeve for a reason. Why would you go through the effort of creating a cosplay and then on the day where you are to finally wear it and show it off, you don't do everything you can to make your character look it's very best? I'm not a makeup guru by any means, but there are youtube tutorials for a reason! 2. Unstyled wigs. - I had to learn how to style wigs and I'm still not that great, but I try my best. I spend many an hour searching youtube for tutorials on how to style them. Unstyled wigs give me the heebie-jeebies. Buying a wig that looks like your character's hair/style/color is only half the battle. You can't expect to take the wig right out of the bag, plop it on your head, and think that it's going to look the best that it can. Invest in some hairspray and a blowdryer; spend some time shaping it and making it look it's best. 3. 100% in-character cosplayers. - I am all for embodying your character as you cosplay.. in video or pictures. When you go to a con and you are in-character the entire time you are at the convention, it gets intrusive. For example, you cannot cosplay Deadpool just because you feel like walking around a convention acting like an asshole the entire day and expect it to be brushed off because you are in a Deadpool cosplay. You can't cosplay a pervert character and think it's appropriate to act like that character at a convention. Pose in-character for pictures. Act in-character for videos or masquerades... but give it a break. 4. Cosplay elitists. - People that reprimand others because they do not look 100% like the character they are cosplaying are the worst. Cosplay is costume PLAY. It's fun. Yes - you have people who have made a career out of it, but even those people don't pick cosplays solely because they look like the character. Cosplay is for everyone. If you want to take it seriously and it's something that means a lot to you, as it does to me, don't look down on those people who use cosplay as a hobby. So what are your cosplay pet peeves?
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